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Mangalan Master

Mangalan Master is the nom de guerre of a candidate for the TMVP contesting Polonnaruwa District for the United People's Freedom Alliance in Sri Lanka. He is a former LTTE cadre, third in line for TMVP leadership after defecting to the party of Colonel Karuna and a staunch Karuna partisan during intra-TMVP feuds. The LTTE made an attempt on his life with claymore bombs in 2005.

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Mangalan Master is the nom de guerre of a candidate for the TMVP contesting Polonnaruwa District for the United People's Freedom Alliance in Sri Lanka.1 He is a former LTTE cadre, third in line for TMVP leadership after defecting to the party of Colonel Karuna2 and a staunch Karuna partisan during intra-TMVP feuds.3 The LTTE made an attempt on his life with claymore bombs in 2005.4

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  1. "Mangalan Master – a TMVP candidate in the election fray", Asian Tribune, July 11, 2008
  2. Kamalendran, Chris (July 6, 2008), "Pillayan ready to make way for Karuna", The Sunday Times
  3. Pillayan gives ‘final warning’ to Karuna Daily Mirror.lk - May 28, 2007
  4. No Karuna camp in govt. area -SLA BBC News - March 20, 2005